Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition.

AbstractThis chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. First, it highlights ways in which universities, organizations, and governments are working to improve cross-sectoral educational opportunities for students. Second, it explores how extension and agricultural services could be made more nutrition-sensitive by improving their content or the capacity of extension workers through formal education and training, in turn improving farmers' understanding of agriculture-nutrition linkages within production, on-farm processing, storage, and marketing; and consumers' purchasing decisions. Third, it considers the building of a nation's capacity to perform food policy research and analysis. Finally, the chapter reflects on lessons that can be learned from efforts to increase capacity at these critical levels.